It seems that USSTRATCOM no longer sees missile defense as a component of strategic deterrence.

The continuing silence, to me, is nearly deafening.

The war in Ukraine is a tragic reminder of the importance of our work, which, as I have always said, is arguably the most important and technical of any committee in the House.

It might even be what Admiral Richard calls a strategic breakout. So it is a truly alarming development.

When I got to the Congress years ago for the first time, in the 1980's, there was an unspoken rule that all politics stopped at the water's edge.

The Soviet Union is gone, but Mr. Putin believes that he has some divine authority to try to reinstate it.

I remember Hitler's aggression and what was known as war creep, and I can tell you what we are seeing here is war creep.

We have a disproportionate number of members of the Republican Party dying in my state.

I am glad that we are considering bipartisan legislation today, but I am still deeply worried.

We can't always be playing catch-up.

If I were the average person sitting back home watching this hearing, I think I would doubt that any of our Nation state adversaries were shaking in their boots.